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of 15% for service and 4.25₤ for "Sojorno taxes".
Fields with mulberry trees and vineyards well cultivated and flat.  Then mountains and tunnels near [[underlined]]Genoa.  Genoa[[\underlined]] dusty aspect as always.  Excellent luncheon in Pullman. Pass [[underlined]]Savona[[\underlined]] 1 P.M where factory of [[underlined]]Italian Bakelite[[\underlined]] is.  A busy dusty factory town.  Took 4 hours train from Milan to get here.  Then [[underlined]]blue Riviera.  San Remo[[\underlined]] much enlarged best impression in French part.  Enormous exterior of [[underlined]]building everywhere.  This certainly does not look like poverty,[[\underlined]]
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or a [[underlined]]country in straightened financial conditions.[[\underlined]]
Found excellent room at $8.00 with bath in Negresco hotel.  Few guests.
[[underlined]]Oct 8[[\underlined]]  Trouble is to get steamer accommodation.  Went yesterday at [[underlined]]American Express.[[\underlined]]  To have [[underlined]]telephone information[[\underlined]] or [[underlined]]telegraph arrives from Paris takes two days![[\underlined]] For [[underlined]]telephone application must be made one day in advance.[[\underlined]]
Afternoon went to [[underlined]]Monte Carlo.  Same crowd as ever,[[\underlined]] and [[underlined]]how they gloat over the roulette wheel.[[\underlined]]  Short visit.  Spent remainder at the very interesting Palace of Oceanography of the former Prince of Monaco.  Intensely interesting specimen and outfit for deep sea